Famed Kansas City and St. Louis manager Whitey Herzog missed induction narrowly with his 71%. He was selected by the HoM voters with a comfortable 79% of the vote (that group also picked Harvey and Miller, though the latter had a little more support).

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i think I am the only HOM guy not to have voted for Harvey (I coudl be wrong, how many votes were there?), but I can't say that his election would anger me any. I just have no idea how to measure an umpire. Maybe it was my mistake not to vote for him.

This whoel process does make me want to do a Manager/GM wing of the HOM, however.

I would have liked to have voted, and the discussion thread certainly provided enough commentary for an informed judgment, but I ended up not having time to review it thoroughly. Without a well-developed system to rely upon in for making an initial placement, I found approaching a vote _much_ harder!

If I were a BBWAA voter, I would submit blank ballots from now on until the VC elects somebody.

I've got it. No more HoF voting of any sort. Just shut 'er down. Then the prima donna m**************ers who are already in won't have to share their precious honor with anybody else, like Michael Jackson in Disneyland. That, my friends, is Cooperstown 2007: Michael Jackson in Disneyland. A bunch of loony m****************ers, just a loony f***ing bin.

It's interesting how we seem to agree with the HoF voters that Harvey, Miller and O'Malley are the top candidates. They prefer Williams to Herzog, we're the opposite but we both picked them as the top managers. We support Dalton and they support Bavasi among GMs.